Jack the Ripper

Alexandra Warwick is Head of the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Westminster. Martin Willis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan

• Introduction - Alexandra Warwick and Martin WillisPart 1: Media1. The house that Jack built - Christopher Frayling2. The pursuit of angles - L. Perry Curtis3. Casting the spell of terror: the press and the early Whitechapel Murders - Darren Oldridge4. Order out of chaos - Gary Coville and Patrick Lucanio5. Blood and ink: narrating the Whitechapel Murders - Alexandra WarwickPart 2: Culture6. The Ripper writing: a cream of a nightmare dream - Clive Bloom7. The Whitechapel Murders and the medical gaze - Andrew Smith8. ‘Jonathan’s great knife’: Dracula meets Jack the Ripper - Nicholas Rance9. Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and the narrative of detection - Martin Willis10. Living in the slashing grounds: Jack the Ripper, monopoly rent and the new heritage - David CunninghamPart 3 History11. Narratives of sexual danger - Judith Walkowitz12. Jack the Ripper as the threat of outcast London - Robert F. Haggard13. ‘Who kills whores?’ ‘I do’, says Jack: race and gender in Victorian London - Sander L. Gilman14. East End 1888 - William Fishman